Architecture Theses: Recent submissions
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MindSet
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Society utilizes space as a tool to distance its most challenging and difficult citizens. In examining the question, “How can architecture influence the re-establishment of psychiatric stability in the mentally ill?”, the ... -
Inspire - Refugee Center
(North Dakota State University, 2013)In today’s world, many people are forced to flee their homeland due to war, unrest, and persecution. Because of conflict, millions of people worldwide become refugees. Many refugees have experienced persecution, torture, ... -
Deaf Sight: A New Sound in Architecture : Architecture for the Deaf
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Waiting for Ruin
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This Thesis, Waiting for Ruin, is an examination of how adaptive reuse projects can become an intermediary for overlapping contemporary and historic architecture. Adaptive reuse can be used to revitalize historic but ... -
Adaptable Architecture: Architecture That Responds to Changing Needs
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis explores the use of adaptable architecture and its ability to change to diverse program and user needs. By using flexible and kinetic components in the design of a performing arts center, it can expand the ... -
Rural Transitions: A Supplemental Community
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The thesis, Rural Transitions, investigates the problem that has become a growing trend as more people move from rural, agricultural areas into suburban or city life. Many of the existing country dwellers are no longer ... -
Supportive Learning: Live, Grow
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis is an investigation into how design can facilitate and enhance learning for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. By designing for groups of people with very specific needs, we learn how architecture can ... -
Holistic hospitality: balancing environmental and humanistic needs
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis provides some answers to the question, how can innovation and social pedagogy transform the way tourism is conceived, developed and practiced? The Typology for the examination of this problem is a hotel and ... -
Engineering The Digital Workplace: The Architecture of Changing Social Interaction
(North Dakota State University, 2013)“Engineering the Digital Workplace” explores how meaningful design can inform, and be informed by, social interaction in an increasingly connected and less private society. The thesis proposes to create a model for how ... -
Growth Through the Past: Cooperation of the Past, Present, and Future in Revitalizing Clarissa, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis goes on to answer the question of whether a piece of the past can be used as a catalyst for growth in a small community. By adapting a current piece of architecture into a tool that can be used by the residents ... -
Mind healing center: a place for alleviating depression
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Architectural details, can brighten the mood of a person. A healing design might show a clearer method of refreshing the minds of clients. The quality of the spaces would magnify importance on selection of color, texture, ... -
Growing & Aging- a new way of connecting generations
(North Dakota State University, 2013)“Growing and Aging: a new way of connecting generations,” is an exploration of a new architectural typology that tries to fill in the generation gap existing between young people and our aging society. When looking at the ... -
Fostering Responsible Behavior
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Educated children must comprehend what their duties towards the environment are and start fostering responsible behavior seriously. If children go to school with means to learn science, literature, etc. they might as well ... -
The Activated Medium: Modern Architectural Representation and Transposition
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis explores the role of the modern architectural representation and its changing relationship to the act of making. The investigation will seek and test outlets for architectural representations to operate under ... -
Growth without Expansion: Utilizing Space We Already Have
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This Thesis will look into the underutilized and often overlooked land resource above built cities. The air space above our structures and roads is a frontier that rarely is tapped into. In an attempt to counter urban ... -
Social Adaptation: Changing the Built Environment
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Social Adaptation examines ways in which a building can adequately respond to the advancement of computing technology and social media dominance. Overwhelming access to computing technology and social media not only changes ... -
Reinventing the American Dream: Saving the Suburbs
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis examines the future of suburban environments and tactics for creating a more feasible suburban community through modifications of the existing elements of the site. The suburban environment may be revitalized ... -
Vacant Mainstreet
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis, Vacant Main Street, will focus on a building’s ability to affect its surrounding community. Can a building be the spark that revitalizes a dying Main Street? The Main Street of St. Croix Falls, WI is ... -
Aquatic Research Center, Maui, HI
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis project is meant to explore, in architectural terms, the question of “what will happen if water levels continue to rise, and population levels continue to grow at an alarming rate?” This issue will impact all ... -
Architectural Mediation: Accommodating Private Development & Public Good
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This Thesis, Architectural Mediation, will explore how to answer the question: how can architecture mediate the interests of private development and public good? The design of a combination transit stop, art gallery, and ...